According to the population pyramid above, population of infant is much higher than population of elders. The graph tends to decrease drastically as the age goes up.
Compare to other part of the world, Sub-Sahara Africa has high child mortality rate. Due to a number of child death, women in Sub-Sahara Africa tends to have average of 5 children while women have average of 3 children. This shows how number of youth population is growing in the poor countries. However, due to malaria infection, one in seven child dies each year, causing the population of age 5 and up to decrease. Due to growing number of malnourishment, HIV/AIDS and many other factors, more than 40% of the population is younger than 20 years old.
Major Cities
Cosmic City:
Pretoria, South Africa; Cape Town, South Africa; Harare, Zimbabwe
Commercial City:
Johannesburg, South Africa; Lusaka, Zambia; Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Religion Religion in Sub-Sahara Africa is very diverse. There are a number of people who believe in Christianity, Islam. There are small number of traditional religions and a few number of Hinduism. Most of them are Christian or Islam although there are many people who are adherents of both religions also practice traditional religions that include folk religion or syncretism. Judaism also has richest history in Africa and there are many Jewish communities in Africa such as Nigeria, Uganda and South Africa.
Climate Since there is a Sahara deserts in between Northern part of Africa and Southern part of Africa, there is a ecological break between the desert climate of the Sahara and the Horn of Africa, which indicate red; semi-arid Sahel, which is orange; tropical climate of Central and Western Africa, which is blue. Southern Africa tends to have a transition to semi-tropical or temperate climates, which indicates green.
African countries are vulnerable to climate change because their agriculture is mainly depended by climate. Especially, Sub-Saharan Africa, there are irrigation water supply reliability, which brings high levels of poverty, low levels of human and physical capital and poor infrastructure.
During December, countries in Sub-Sahara Africa experience dry weather, with heavy rains. Heavy rain continues throughout the year. This heavy rainfalls cause flooding in some countries. Dry weather also cause throughout the year.
Weather South Africa:
Spring: September ~ October
Summer: November ~ March
Autumn: April ~ May
Winter: June ~ August
Madagascar:
Spring: September ~ October
Summer: November ~ March
Autumn: April ~ May
Winter: July ~ August
Zambia:
Spring: September - November
Summer: December - April
Autumn: April - May
Winter: May - August
Uganda:
Spring: November ~ December
Summer: December - February
Autumn: March - April
Winter: May - October
Language & Demographics Since there are many different tribes in the region, there are many controversy over the purported connection between language and human genetics. Bantu language is most used in southern, central and eastern part of Africa but there are several other groups. South Africa has the largest populations of whites, Indians, and Coloureds in Africa. (* Coloureds are person of mixed race in South Africa and Namibia).
South Africa uses languages of Zulu, Xhosa, Shona, Sotho, Tswana, Umbundu, Northern Sotho. Central Africa uses Kinyarwanda, Kongo, Tshiluba, Kirundi. West Africa uses Volta-Congo, Akan, More, Benue-Congo, Yoruba, Ibibio, Igbo.
Bibliography
1. "NationMaster - World Statistics, Country Comparisons." NationMaster - World Statistics, Country Comparisons. N.p., n.d. Web. 26 Oct. 2009.
2. "Southern Africa Direct : News & Reviews : Africa's population reaches one billion." Southern Africa Direct : Gateway To The Undiscovered. BuaNews-Xinhua, 4 Sept. 2009. Web. 25 Oct. 2009.
3. "Sub-Saharan Africa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia." Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 Oct. 2009
4. White, Matthew. "Religion in Africa." Religion in Africa. Matthew White, n.d. Web. 28 Oct. 2009.
Theme 2: Place
Population
According to the population pyramid above, population of infant is much higher than population of elders. The graph tends to decrease drastically as the age goes up.
Compare to other part of the world, Sub-Sahara Africa has high child mortality rate. Due to a number of child death, women in Sub-Sahara Africa tends to have average of 5 children while women have average of 3 children. This shows how number of youth population is growing in the poor countries. However, due to malaria infection, one in seven child dies each year, causing the population of age 5 and up to decrease. Due to growing number of malnourishment, HIV/AIDS and many other factors, more than 40% of the population is younger than 20 years old.
Major Cities
Religion
Climate
African countries are vulnerable to climate change because their agriculture is mainly depended by climate. Especially, Sub-Saharan Africa, there are irrigation water supply reliability, which brings high levels of poverty, low levels of human and physical capital and poor infrastructure.
During December, countries in Sub-Sahara Africa experience dry weather, with heavy rains. Heavy rain continues throughout the year. This heavy rainfalls cause flooding in some countries. Dry weather also cause throughout the year.
Weather
South Africa:
Madagascar:
Zambia:
Uganda:
- Spring: November ~ December
- Summer: December - February
- Autumn: March - April
- Winter: May - October
Language & DemographicsSouth Africa uses languages of Zulu, Xhosa, Shona, Sotho, Tswana, Umbundu, Northern Sotho. Central Africa uses Kinyarwanda, Kongo, Tshiluba, Kirundi. West Africa uses Volta-Congo, Akan, More, Benue-Congo, Yoruba, Ibibio, Igbo.
Bibliography
1. "NationMaster - World Statistics, Country Comparisons." NationMaster - World Statistics, Country Comparisons. N.p., n.d. Web. 26 Oct. 2009.
2. "Southern Africa Direct : News & Reviews : Africa's population reaches one billion." Southern Africa Direct : Gateway To The Undiscovered. BuaNews-Xinhua, 4 Sept. 2009. Web. 25 Oct. 2009.
3. "Sub-Saharan Africa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia." Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 Oct. 2009
4. White, Matthew. "Religion in Africa." Religion in Africa. Matthew White, n.d. Web. 28 Oct. 2009.
5. "File:Africa Koppen Map.png - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia." Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. N.p., n.d. Web. 27 Oct. 2009. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Africa_Koppen_Map.png
6. " Subsaharan Africa Weather Analysis 2006 ." vf-tropi.com Weather Analysis for Subsaharan Africa . N.p., n.d. Web. 28 Oct. 2009. <http://vf-tropi.com/vf-af06.html>.
7. "HIV/AIDS Skepticism."HIV/AIDS Skepticism. N.p., n.d. Web. 28 Oct. 2009. <hivskeptic.files.wordpress.com>
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